Mijas innovates with the home care service. This assistance provided by the area of Social Inclusion of the Mijas Town Hall incorporates therapies with virtual reality headsets, which allows beneficiaries with reduced mobility, for example, to travel to exotic countries, practice sports such as diving and carry out motor skills sessions. The benefits, they say, go beyond the physical and even include emotional stimulation. The municipality thus becomes, according to the Town Hall, one of the pioneers in integrating this technology into home care. 

 

On Wednesday 5th Tania tried this device. She is 33 years old and suffers from Huntington's disease, a genetic, neurological, inherited and degenerative disorder, which causes nerve cells in the brain to decay over time. She is a user of the home care service provided by the Mijas Town Hall and the first to try this virtual reality therapy developed by the company awarded the service, BCMGestionARTE. Her reaction to experiencing travelling to Paris and seeing the Eiffel Tower has been very exciting and Tania has not only been able to see this monument from the park, but also from a boat on the river Seine and has even been able to see the views from the top.

 

The psychological team at BCMGestionARTE is in charge of offering these therapies which, they assure, achieve very positive results, which transcend the physical benefits, such as cognitive and emotional stimulation, something that is highly valued by the families of these users. This is what Tania's mother, Isabel Lobato, said: "As soon as I saw her face, I was very happy. Seeing those movements she made, because they sometimes have very sudden movements, they are tense...Seeing how she moved her neck up and down. This is going to help her a lot and emotionally too, today I have seen reactions in my daughter that I haven't seen for a long time, and she was even able to say something, ‘This is beautiful or wonderful', I think she said.

 

The mayoress of Mijas, Ana Mata (PP), and the councillor for Social Inclusion, Mari Francis Alarcón (PP), accompanied the home care team in their services to see how this therapy works. "That joy and satisfaction that Tania had, in some way, has been transmitted to those of us who accompanied her", said the mayoress. 

The Town Hall and the company awarded the service assure that this methodology will reach all home care users, currently 604, 20% of whom are highly dependent. "We are very happy to offer, from the Town Hall and with the company, this service and we will continue on the path of the evolution, of social innovation because everything that is good for the neighbours, will also be good for our municipality", said Mata. 

 

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